My father-in-law is 74 and writing his memoir. Watching him struggle made me build something.
He'd been at it for months. Sit down with ChatGPT, talk through a memory, get some text back, copy it, paste it into Word, lose the thread, start again. Every session felt like fighting the tool rather than writing the book.
He's not technically hopeless — he figured it out — but the friction was killing his momentum. He'd come to a session excited about a memory, and leave frustrated with formatting.
I'm a developer. So I built him something purpose-built: a workspace where the AI coach lives alongside the document. You talk to it, it suggests memoir prose, you click "use this" and it goes straight into your chapter. No copy-pasting. No losing your place.
He's now three chapters in.
I ended up opening it to other people — it's called MyLifeChapters (mylifechapters.ai). Free to start. Just thought it might help someone else's parent or grandparent who has a story worth keeping.
Happy to answer questions about the writing process, or the tool itself.